This is why the followers of the Right and the listeners of FoxNews and other Right Wing radio are so uninformed. When a Congressperson can patently lie on a radio station, specifically in this tense atmosphere where Republicans have confused many Americans into believing that the Obama administration is trying to have a complete government control economy, this can only lead to Americans making bad decisions.
Wherever you hear or see misinformation, you must immediately challenge it with the truth. If your local newspaper prints false information whether in the editorial page, main page, or otherwise, write a letter to the editor and get it printed. If you hear misinformation on the Radio, call in to the program and get on the air and correct it (you may have to be benignly deceptive to get on air by agreeing with the fallacy when being screened by the screener). Correct the misinformation with a tweet. Do not stay silent ever. At the gym or anywhere, if you hear misinformation, respectfully challenge it.
The country is getting populated with either the walking misinformed or the ignorant. We cannot survive that.
Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is continuing to denounce what she says is a pattern of government takeovers of the economy — going so far as to say that the economy used to be totally private. "And what we saw this Tuesday, once the president signed the health care bill at the 11th hour in the morning on Tuesday, that effected 51% government takeover of the private economy," Bachmann said on Wednesday, during an interview with North Dakota talk radio host Scott Hennen. "It is really quite sobering what has happened. From 100% of our economy was private prior to September of 2008, but as of Tuesday, the federal government has now taken ownership or control of 51% of the private economy."
Before September 2008 — presumably in reference to the TARP bailout of Wall Street — one hundred percent of the economy was private? Bachmann has previously made the tautological statement 100% of the "private economy" was private at a given time, but now she’s starting to go even further.
Bachmann also accused the Democrats and the media of smearing the Tea Partiers who came to Washington for the health care vote last weekend, by fabricating claims of misbehavior. "The media wants you to believe that tea party patriots are toothless hillbillies," said Bachmann, who instead cast the tea partiers as intelligent, educated and professional people. "This is a very sophisticated crowd. And then these charges from Democrats that they were spit upon, that there were racial epithets — there’s no one who saw anything."
Bachmann: ‘100% Of Our Economy Was Private’ Before September 2008 | TPMDC